The Great Awake are from far away across the globe, namely from Sydney, Australia. There are twelve songs on this beautiful record. This band play their vision of melodic punk rock, kind of mixture between old school nineties sound of all those Fat/Epitaph bands that I grew up with and learned to love this music so much, and more mid tempo modern emotional melodic punk not unlike Flatliners or The Menzingers with kind of nervous guitar melody, bass and vocals bordering between singing clean and melodic, but also screaming melodic at times. Songs like ‘A Shitty Midlife Crisis’, ‘Our 20s Have Stopped Roaring’ and ‘Too Stubborn To Quit’ are lyrically and musically totally something that I can relate to in every way, being in the scene for thirty years now. We are speaking here of tight incredible musicianship and great songwriting what makes this record a secret little jewel of the punk rock scene.
I have been listening to lots of doom lately, due to winter and weather and I just feel like it. Destronomer are hailing from far away Sydney, Australia, across the globe and this is their debut full length opus. This one contains eight songs. The music of Destronomer can be described as a melodic and epic doom metal with some up tempo more straightforward stoner metal influenced parts interweaving with some more psychodelic atmospheric songwriting as in excellent ‘Bin Diver’ where perfect vocal melody lines and doomy parts interplay with I would say also post metal parts and strong bass lines, but I must especially highlight vocals on this opus. Nathan Williams has such superb voice, gentle where needed, melodic and full voice which expresses all the emotions behind the music. This is a strong debut album for all of you who like your doom metal epic and melodic. My personal favorites: ‘Bin Diver’, ‘Core Fallen’, ‘Eschaton’.
Primitive Blast are from Sydney, Australia and play a bit rawer and more primitive version of hardcore punk. On this record you can find 6 songs which speak of despair, fighting your inner demons, trying to cope with and survive in this modern world and false progress when most of the kids are just slaves to technological gadgets and similar merry themes.
The music is mostly fast paced with some downtuned and more moshing parts like in awesome PSA, the music and vocals are very angry and fit perfectly into the song structures. I love this one. Angry, yet personal, but through the lines you can read all the anguish and rage about political injustice going on in the world right now. Superb stuff!
No more rates for the records in this zine, I think hardcore punk webzine should not give rates, I will try only to describe with words what I felt while listening to each record.
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